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Suggest Treatment For Epilepsy In A 5 Year Old Child

hello my 5 yr old has been diagnosed with epilepsy . some of the things that is concerning me is that she had 17 seizures in one day i took her to the er then the next day to her doctor who see her about them he said that it was one seizure well she jabs when she walk she say it hurts to walk she still grinding her tongue isn t right and her speech is just now getting right , he put her on depakote 125 2x a day my question why is she still doing the things and what kind of epilepsy could this be what all kind of test could be run on her to find out what is going on ?
Wed, 30 Aug 2017
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Hi, some tests need to be done.like MRI brain and Electro- encephlo- gram.some questions are still pending, wether there is a history of seizure in family? seizure are contrlled or not?
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Suggest Treatment For Epilepsy In A 5 Year Old Child

Hi, some tests need to be done.like MRI brain and Electro- encephlo- gram.some questions are still pending, wether there is a history of seizure in family? seizure are contrlled or not?